Ice-creeper.



PATENTED APR. 1 1906.

D. L. PIOKETT. ICE CREEPER. APPLIOATION TILED mam, 1905.

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lCE-CREEPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed August 21, 1905. Serial No. 275,158-

.To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, DANIEL L. PICKETT, a citizen of the United states, residing at Keene, in the county of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful ice-Creeper, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for attachmentto boots or shoes to prevent slipping upon icy surfaces, and has for its object to provide a simply-constructed device of this character which may be adjusted to any size of boot or shoe and readily attachable or detachable as required.

With these and other objects in view,which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in cer tain novel features of Construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed. v

in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation.

in the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a shoe with the improved device applied. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the im roved device. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation, en arged, with the rear spur-plate removed. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail, enlarged, on the lines 4 4 of 2 of the joint portion of the body of the device, illustrating the construction more fully.

. The improved device comprises in general a heel member having a forwardly-extol] ding shank 11 and a rear heel-guard or stop 12, a toe member 13, having a strap 14 for connecting to the toe portion of the boot or shoe,

one end, as at 16, to the toe member and also having means for adjustably clamping to the shank ll of the heel member. The heel member is provided with depending spurs 17, refer-ably formed of L-shaped plates riveted by one arm to the under side of the heel member and with the other arm serrated, and the toe member 13 is provided with similar spurs, as at 18. The intermediate member 15 is provided with a longitudinal slot 19,- through which a clamp-bolt operatcsto provide'means for adjustably clamping the members together and adapting the device to boots or shoes of dill'crent lengths. The hinge members 16, between the intermediate member 15am! thctoe member 13, are formed as a whole at 31.)

with square shoulders 21 at their lower sides to form stops to prevent the toe portion movmg below a point in longitudinal alinement with the remaining portions of the device, but

which will freely move upward with the bending of the foot of the wearer at the in ste as hereinafter-described. I

' Xtending beneath the heel member 10 in superimposed position are two plates or bars-16 5 22 23, longitudinally slotted, as indicated'at 24, and clamped to the heel member by a bolt 25, so that the plates may be adjusted transversely of the heel member. At thein outer ends the plates wardly, as at 26 27, and then bent overdnwardly and downwardly, as at 28 29, to form resilient stops for bearin of the heel portion 30 0ft e shoe, (represented Pivoted at'32 in the portion 27 of the heelclamp member 22 ed to bear by its 0 inner face of the tion 29 and heel ortion 30, and thus lock the device to the s cc. In applyin the device the toe m mbers and heel members 10 and 13 are first a ,justed erative end 34 against the ownwardly-extending poris a cam member 33, adapt- 22 23 are turned 119-5 0 upon'opposite sides I press the same firmly against the to the required length by loosening the bolt 20 and setting the members 11 and 15 and again tightening the bolt to hold the parts in the adjusted position. The strap 14 is.t hen also adjusted by its buckle 35 to fit the toe portion of the shoe 31'. are then adjusted to cause the portions 28 29 to bear tightly against the heel portion 30 and clamped in the adjusted position by tightening the clamp-screw 25. The device I will thus fit that particular shoe at any time it may be applied thereto and will not requir' adjustment each time it is'worn. 3';

When the device is to be worn, the toe of the shoe is passed beneaththe strap I i-and. the heel portion 30 pressed between the 1 spring portions 28 .9 and. in advance ofthe. rib 12. The com member 33 is then actu' ated to Gilt e tl operative end 34 to tightly. lock the device to the shoe. The bin ing of the toe portion to the remainder of the evice er- 1 mits the requisite flexibility inwalkingy w 'le at the same time the stop members 21 prevent 4 any downward movement to the toe ortion when the footis lifted in the act of W8, in

Having thus described the invention, what 1 is claimed is j 1. In an 1ce-creeper, a heel member having.

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depending spurs, clamp-plates superimposed l beneath. said heel member and upturned at the ends and extending inwardly and downwerdly for yieldably bearing againstthe heel l of the shoe, and means for. adjustebly eonv nesting said plates to said heel member.

heel member having member having defiexibly umnng said heel and toe members, means for detach ably connecting said toe member to the toe portion of a shoe, clamp-plates superimposed beneath said heel member and upturned at the ends with the extremities turned inwardly and downwardly for bearing against the heel. of :1 shoe, a cam member pivoted in one of said upturned ends and operating to cornpress the adjacent downturned extremity against the shoe-heel, and means for adjustghly connecting said plates to said heel meniin testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto alfixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL L. PICKETT. Witnesses 2* GRANVILLE WARDWELL, S. WELLING'roN. 

